ARIZONA / LOWELL OBS. AS CTA HOST JEFFREY HALL

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ARIZONA / LOWELL OBS. AS CTA HOST JEFFREY HALL LOWELL OBSERVATORY, FLAGSTAFF, AZ CTA-US Meeting / SLAC FEBRUARY 24, 2012

OVERVIEW Private, non-profit research institution 20 PhD staff 20 instrument builders and engineers 30 outreach and fundraising 20 administrative, IT, and support

LOWELL RESEARCH 1894… 2011… MARS HILL 0.6-m 1.8-m 1.1-m 0.9-m NOI 1894… 2011… MARS HILL 0.6-m 1.8-m 1.1-m 0.9-m NOI EXTRAGALACTIC - EXOPLANETS - STELLAR - ICY MOONS, PLUTO, KUIPER BELT

LOWELL RESEARCH ≥ 2012…

LOWELL RESEARCH ≥ 2012… Capital cost to build and commission DCT $53M Discovery Communications $16M First rights to educational use of data in programming University partners $15M Per-night or long-term buy-ins in return for access Instrument suite Built mostly in-house at Lowell Includes 13’ FOV optical imager, near-IR spectrograph

LOWELL INSTRUMENT SHOP

LOWELL OUTREACH 80,000 onsite visitors per year Includes ~10,000 K-12 students, also many private programs “Discovery Era” DCT research broadcast to 99M in USA, 1.5B worldwide Major expansion of outreach efforts, including partners Substantial broader impact benefit in proposals already

LANDSCAPE - FLAGSTAFF Northern AZ regional hub population ~75,000 incl. nearby developments largest city in roughly 50K square mi 75 mi to Grand Canyon 50-year lighting ordinance “dark-sky city” U S Naval Obs. Flagstaff Station (NOFS) ~20 astronomers Timekeeping & positional services Navy Optical Interferometer U S Geologic Survey (USGS) station

LANDSCAPE - FLAGSTAFF Northern Arizona University ~25,000 students ~48M/year in grants/contracts Expansion / diversification due to State-level budget pressures

LANDSCAPE - COCONINO COUNTY Coconino and Yavapai Counties County governments development-oriented Renewable energy projects underway ECoNA (Economic Collaborative of N AZ) specifically wants to leverage critical mass of astronomical assets in the area Long-standing County-wide lighting ordinance like Flagstaff, includes restrictive exclusion zones

LANDSCAPE - ARIZONA Statewide lighting protection Recent interest from State agencies (e.g., AZ Commerce Authority)

 TO LOWELL 1 MI DOWNTOWN FLAGSTAFF TO CTA 40 MI? 